The Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs has announced that David Dodge is the 2012 recipient of the Couchiching Award for Public Policy Leadership. The award honours the accomplishments of a Canadian who has demonstrated leadership in public policy and who has taken exemplary actions to create policy that has had a proven positive impact on Canada or a community within. David will be presented the award at the 81^st Annual Couchiching Summer Conference in Geneva Park on Lake Couchiching, Ontario.